"History is a little girl who is dressed up by others, and no one knows what the real history is."

"Suppose, just suppose, draw an infinite number of parallel points on a blank piece of paper, and then use a line, starting from the same starting point, connect one point after another according to your ideas, and you can only choose one parallel point for each point, then maybe you will get a straight line, but more I am afraid it will be an irregular line.

The most interesting thing is that if you erase the line you connected to and reconnect it with another person, then it is basically impossible to get the same line.

This is a simple hypothesis, you can try it in reality, and you will find that those lines drawn by different people may overlap at some points, but the final lines will definitely be inconsistent.

If the blank sheet of paper is infinitely large and has countless parallel points, then no matter how many times you try, the final lines may coincide at a certain point, but eventually you will clearly realize that they belong to different lines.

But if you are at a parallel point and erase the other parallel points, leaving only one point, then those twists and turns of the lines will eventually have the same end.

Doesn't that sound meaningless. But if you regard this line as history, and those points represent important nodes in history, then you will be surprised to find that there have been so many possibilities in history, and if history has no end, then you can almost get countless historical lines.

They have the same origin, but after one historical inflection point after another, they eventually lead to different directions, becoming their own lines, even if they overlap with other historical lines at a certain point, but they only intersect and then stagger each other. Unless there is a real end on paper.

But does history have an end?

Maybe there is, maybe not. We will not discuss the answer to this question for the time being.

Let's go back to the original question, if history holds so many possibilities. So how do we be sure that history as we know it must be the only thread left on a blank sheet of paper? Could it be that there are other lines on the blank paper, but we are trapped in the dots so we can't see them?

In fact, this is a cliché topic, that is, whether there is a world in the universe that starts from the same starting point as our world and finally turns in another direction, that is, the parallel world that many people have heard of.

Does a parallel world exist?

For me, for many ordinary people, most of the time, it is only occasionally when I am annoyed that the reality is not satisfactory, and a thought suddenly springs up in my heart.

I fantasize that in another parallel time and space, there is another me, and that I have made another possibility, so I have the happiness I desire.

But most of the time, no one really thinks about it.

I'm no exception.

Until one day, well, thanks to my son.

Yes, I have a good son, very good, so good that sometimes I want to kill him. I'm serious.

But anyway, that's it, thanks to my wonderful son, I had the privilege of participating in a symposium on the parallel world conjecture that day, which was attended by experts and scholars in the field of parallel world studies.

I didn't know this before, because I got the invitation that was supposed to be given to my son by coincidence, and I participated in this discussion by accident.

This is supposed to be a very secret discussion, as can be seen from the fact that the experts and scholars did not reveal their true identities during the discussion, but only used each other's code names.

Well, speaking of code names, one of the experts, codenamed Lord God, made a very deep impression on me.

Because his answer is always so good, it is the kind of show of Chen Duxiu, the show of the flower show.

I was sincerely afraid of such a professional seminar, because I did not have enough knowledge to participate in such a professional discussion.

Fortunately, I have a good son.

As mentioned earlier, my son is excellent.

So with the help of my son, I gradually became involved in the discussion.

Let's start with a hypothesis, and then let's look at what additional conditions are needed to achieve this hypothesis.

Our hypothesis begins in 202 BC, the year we know Liu Bang to establish the Western Han Dynasty. Originally, I heard that the initial assumption was from 210 BC, the year of Qin Shi Huang's death.

I heard that the original topic of discussion was where history would have gone if Qin Shi Huang had not died and the Great Qin Empire had not died II.

But it is said that this historical hypothesis has already been discussed by others.

So we changed to another assumption, that is, if it started with Liu Bang's establishment of the Western Han Dynasty and continued all the way, there was no Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.

The Han Empire lasted until the seventeenth century, the century when the Great Voyages of the West began and the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty.

This is an interesting hypothesis.

We assume that such a parallel world exists, and then in order to ensure that such a parallel world can exist on paper, we start to add some more conditions to this parallel world, so as to ensure that the existence of this parallel world looks more real.

One of the most important issues is to solve the problem of the change of dynasties in history, as we all know, there has never been a dynasty in history that has lasted more than 1,000 years.

So we have to add some conditions so that our hypothetical Han Empire can indeed last for thousands of years.

Then we thought about it and chose religion.

After all, historically, there are no thousand-year-old dynasties, but thousand-year-old religions. But then the problem arises again.

Because religion and imperial power will always be in conflict, which has been proven in the history books, it is not subject to human will, so we add another condition, that is, this imaginary world does have the power of the gods, so that the divine authority of the monarch is reasonable and legitimate.

It may sound a little funny, but considering that there are superpowers in our world now, it doesn't seem so absurd to assume that gods exist.

In short, we have made some settings, added some necessary conditions, and roughly completed the preliminary setting of this world, this is a world of divine monarchy, the gods really exist, in the history of the whole world, it is basically a religion that believes in gods, and the blood nobles who themselves represent the blood of the gods rule this world together.

Until the history of this world comes to the point where we hypothetize. ”